Occupations Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

10 Occupations Quotes
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“Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth... But amusing? Never.”
Robert Half Quotes
“I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves, by way of amends, to be a help and ornament thereunto.”
Francis Bacon Quotes
Source: Maxims of the Law (preface)
“Let a man practise the profession he best knows. [Lat., Quam quisque novit artem, in hac se exerceat.]”
Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) Quotes
Source: Tusculanarum Disputationum (I, 18)
“It is now possible for a flight attendant to get a pilot pregnant.”
Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) Quotes
Source: Tusculanarum Disputationum (I, 18)
“The ugliest of trades have their moments of pleasure. Now, if I were a grave-digger, or even a hangman, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.”
Douglas Jerrold Quotes
Source: Jerrold's Wit--Ugly Trades
“And sure the Eternal Master found The single talent well employ'd.”
Samuel Johnson Quotes
Source: Verses on the On the Death of Mr. Robert Levet (st. 7)
“My occupation now, I suppose, is jail inmate.”
Theodore John Kaczynski Quotes
Source: when asked in court what his current profession was
“The hand of little employment hath the daintier sense.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at V, i)
“All professions are conspiracies against the laity.”
George Bernard Shaw Quotes
Source: The Doctor's Dilemma
“Thus Nero went up and down Greece and challenged the fiddlers at their trade. Aeropus, a Macedonian, made lanterns, Harcatius, the king of Parthia, was a mole-catcher; and Biantes, the Lydian, filed needles.”
Jeremy Taylor Quotes
Source: Holy Living (ch. I, sec. I, Rules for Employing Our Time)
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